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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

By : Brett Hargreaves
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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

By: Brett Hargreaves

Overview of this book

The AZ-304 exam tests an architect's ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure solutions in Azure based on customer requirements. Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the AZ-304 exam content to help you prepare for it confidently, pass the exam first time, and get ready for real-world challenges. This book will help you to investigate the need for good architectural practices and discover how they address common concerns for cloud-based solutions. You will work through the CloudStack, from identity and access through to infrastructure (IaaS), data, applications, and serverless (PaaS). As you make progress, you will delve into operations including monitoring, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of how these operations fit into the real world with the help of full scenario-based examples throughout the book. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the AZ-304 certification exam and have a handy desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring Modern Architecture
4
Section 2: Identity and Security
9
Section 3: Infrastructure and Storage Components
14
Section 4: Applications and Databases
19
Section 5: Operations and Monitoring
23
Section 6: Beyond the Exam
26
Mock Exam
27
Mock Answers

Mock Answers

  1. C) On each subscription, set an individual monthly budget and an alert that will notify the owner when 80% of the budget is reached.

    Cost alerts and budgets are a great way to alert owners when they are nearing set thresholds so that they can decide how to proceed.

  2. B) Configure your subscriptions to send diagnostics logs to a Log Analytics workspace. Configure the workspace with 180-days retention.

    The Azure activities are only retained for 90 days. You could also send logs to a storage account; however, using a Log Analytics workspace enables full querying with the Kusto query language.

  3. A) Create an action group with the email address(es) of your administrators. Create an alert to trigger the action group when the CPU hits 100%.

    Although you could technically have an alert trigger a logic app, the built-in functionality of using action groups would be the simplest option.

  4. C) Purchase a P1 AD license for every user in your organization who you wish to be protected...